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Saturn's hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78N. The sides of the hexagon are about 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long, which is about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) longer than the diameter of Earth.

There are currently 85 video games based on LEGO.

A meter was originally the measure of length equal to the ten-millionth part of Earths meridional arc between the north pole and the equator:

In La Loi Du 18 Germinal An 3 (the law of 17950407) pertaining to weights and measures, the meter was defined in Article 5 as:
Mtre, la mesure de longueur gale la dix-millionime partie de l'arc du mridien terrestre compris entre le ple boral et l'quateur. (Meter, the measure of length equal to the ten-millionth part of Earths meridional arc between the north pole and the equator.)
This decree of 1795 occurred during the middle of the effort of two surveyors to determine how long this meridian quadrant actually was in order for people to be able to put this definition into practice in a useful manner. This definition for the meter (as well as the definitions of the other metric units) did not take effect until 1799, when a platinum bar was selected as most representative of the length the surveyors determined, and that bar became known as le mtre des Archives (the meter of the archives). (Note: Many people think there were two etch marks on the bar indicating the meter; this first bar, in 1799, was actually an end standard, so that the two ends were used instead of marks in the interior, and the length of the bar became the practical definition of the meter.) This practice of having an official definition and a distinct practical definition went on for some decades. In the meantime, further surveys covering a little over 10 in latitude instead of the original less than 7 out of the 90 constituting a quadrant and done more carefully soon indicated the that the meter of the archives was a bit too short.
When the convention of the meter was signed off in 1875, the metric system transitioned from being under control of the French government to becoming internationalized and controlled by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, who directed that an improved, platinum-iridium bar be produced to replace the meter of the archive (actually a multiplicity of such bars to be sent to various countries for the basis of their units of measurement). Because it had become very well known at this time that the meter of the archive was very close to 0.2 mm too short based on improved measurements of the meridian quadrant in accordance with the legal definition, so the question became which should be used for the length of the new barthe legal definition of 1/10,000,000th of a meridian quadrant or the practical definition actually used by people based on the meter of the archive? The latter was chosen as making more sensewhat people had been actually using for decades in a time of discrepancy with the legal definition. When measurements are involved, two distinct definitions will always ultimately end up with a conflict and a choice to be made. This is the point at which the 17950407 definition of the meter in terms of Earths size was ultimately abrogated.
Since then, geodesists have learned even more reasons that the original definition was not good, so it was good that definition had already been abandoned. Among the newer reasons involve Earth not being an oblate spheroid but having bumps of some tens of meters, so the length of the desired quadrant depends on the meridian selected to measure. Some time-dependent variations of Earths structure and rotation (a precessing wobble) cause further variations. According to the latest analysis of measurement data indicate that the meridian quadrant depends on longitude but is close to 10,001,965.729 3 m.

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If you had a wingsuit, you could fly like a bird on Titan.

The Twitter bird's official name Is Larry:

If you truly want to be among the savviest social media users out there, you should know that the Twitter bird has an official name: Larry the Bird (yes, like Larry Bird, the former pro basketball player who played for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's home team, the Boston Celtics).

Americium is an absurdly radioactive element, and it's in your house right now.
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Americium is an absurdly radioactive element, and it's in your house right now.
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Most americium is produced by uranium or plutonium being bombarded with neutrons in nuclear reactors one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 100 grams of americium. It is widely used in commercial ionization chamber smoke detectors, as well as in neutron sources and industrial gauges. ( O_o)

indica posted...

Most americium is produced by uranium or plutonium being bombarded with neutrons in nuclear reactors one tonne of spent nuclear fuel contains about 100 grams of americium. It is widely used in commercial ionization chamber smoke detectors, as well as in neutron sources and industrial gauges. ( O_o)

Nuclear waste is why you won't die in a house fire.

The longest book title contains 1,809 words:

The title of Srijan Timilsina's 2014 Guinness World Record-setting book is practically a full text in itself. Including 1,809 words (or 11,284 characters) it begins, The historical development of the Brain i.e. from its formation from Annelida: Earthworm, Lugworm, Rag worm, Amphitrite, Freshwater worm, Marine worm, Tubifex, Leech. etc, Arthropoda: Housefly, Butterfly, Honey bee, Fairy shrimp, Horseshoe crab, Tick, Bluebottle, Froghopper, Yellow crazy ant," and continues to list pretty much every insect, fish, and mammal you can think of, including humans.
It then goes on to ask questions like, "What did they find and what did they eat? How did they defend from their enemies and attack them? Which is the oldest stone ever discovered? Which ancestor of human being first started to walk with the help of two limbs?" It finally ends with, "Solutions of above inquisitiveness are included in this book," which you think would go without saying, but perhaps not if you want your title to set a world record.

Allergy season is getting longer and more intense each year:

If you're one of the millions of Americans who suffer from allergies, we've got bad news for you: Allergy season is getting longer and more intense each year, according to a 2019 study published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Likely another unfortunate result of climate change, scientists have found that pollen counts across the Northern Hemisphere have increased over the last 20 years and that pollen season is increasing 0.9 days a year worldwide.

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AV idol Yui Hatano has appeared in over 3,000 adult films :3

Some Maryland residents are taxed for the rain:

As they say, "nothing is certain but death and taxes." Depending on where in the world you live, rain may be just as much of an inevitability. And for some Maryland residents, rain and taxes are both inescapable and tied together thanks to the "rain tax," which was passed by the state legislature and signed into law in 2012.
Nine counties, as well as the city of Baltimore, pay the annual fee that the Center for Watershed Protection describes as a "user fee charged to property owners for the service of managing the polluted runoff coming from their property."

Speaking about taxes...
The IRS have plans, backup plans and backup backup plans that should allow them to start collecting taxes one month after the start of a nuclear war.

Scientists have partially revived disembodied pig brains:

In April 2019, a team at Yale was able to restore partial functionality to the brains of decapitated pigs for 10 hours or more after the animal's death. Neuroscientist Nenad Sestan, who participated in the experiment, explained that the result might allow us to "better understand how brain cells react to circulatory arrest" and "test whether some cellular functions can be restored in the brain after death."

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Scientists have partially revived disembodied pig brains:

In April 2019, a team at Yale was able to restore partial functionality to the brains of decapitated pigs for 10 hours or more after the animal's death. Neuroscientist Nenad Sestan, who participated in the experiment, explained that the result might allow us to "better understand how brain cells react to circulatory arrest" and "test whether some cellular functions can be restored in the brain after death."

Did they not read Frankinstein!?

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Allegedly...

Imit8m3 posted...

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Allegedly...

The average female ostrich is unfuckable, while the below average human caretakers can get blasted with limitless Chad dick.
/sarcasm

You can boil water until it freezes inside a vacuum chamber.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

The average female ostrich is unfuckable, while the below average human caretakers can get blasted with limitless ostriChad dick.
/sarcasm

ftfy

Baiken (top) canonically has the biggest booba in the Guilty Gear series. After Elphelt (bottom) was introduced, the devs had to increase the size of Baiken's booba to maintain "story" lol

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From Software created a video game adaptation for the big budget experimental anime film Spriggan, released in 1999. The movie itself was an adaptation of a manga by the same name, and somewhat similar to Akira but with shades of like The Terminator (Kyle Reese) vs like Ellen Ripley & Robocop, which was I guess popular at the time in manga/anime & games.

Xethuminra posted...

From Software created a video game adaptation for the big budget experimental anime film Spriggan, released in 1999. The movie itself was an adaptation of a manga by the same name, and somewhat similar to Akira but with shades of like The Terminator (Kyle Reese) vs like Ellen Ripley & Robocop, which was I guess popular at the time in manga/anime & games.

Huh, so that's where they got the Psedonym for "Valkyrie Dimesion" from.

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Astronauts in space are exposed to the same amount of radiation as 150 to 6,000 chest x-rays:

When astronauts leave Earth, they face a range of factors that affect them physically. That includes the intense amount of radiation that they're exposed: According to NASA, it's the equivalent of anywhere between 150 to a staggering 6,000 chest X-rays.

The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow

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Europe got 0 Euro bills.

Foppe posted...

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Europe got 0 Euro bills.

but why

ElleRagu posted...

but why

The Zero Euro is a souvenir banknote. Its origins stem from France in 2015 after Richard Faille, creator of popular French currency souvenirs, decided to create euros that promote tourism. The banknotes are printed at a private fiduciary facility and they share many of the same characteristics of a real Euro except that they are marked as 0, hence the name, and are tested to ensure they cannot enter circulation as legitimate financial currency. The front of all zero euros is the same and it includes a white zero followed by the Euro sign to denominate no financial value.

She's super cute.
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King_Rial posted...

She's super cute.
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cute is putting it mildly lol shes gorgeous

Beaver bum goo is occasionally used to enhance vanilla flavorings:

The next time you eat something that flaunts the rich flavor of vanilla, you might want to be aware ofor do your best to ignorethe fact that castoreum, a goo that beavers excrete to mark their territory, is sometimes used to enhance the flavor of vanilla in food, according to National Geographic. The goo is "generally regarded as a safe additive" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but you'll probably never come across it in real life because it's difficult and expensive to collect.

indica posted...

but you'll probably never come across it in real life because it's difficult and expensive to collect.

It was cheap when trappers were able to massacre beavers by the thousands, and shipping actual vanilla across the ocean took several months (while over-land shipping wasn't much faster).
Nowadays, artificial vanilla is a petroleum byproduct, and growing and shipping the real stuff is highly industrialized.

Questionmarktarius posted...

It was cheap when trappers were able to massacre beavers by the thousands, and shipping actual vanilla across the ocean took several months (while over-land shipping wasn't much faster).
Nowadays, artificial vanilla is a petroleum byproduct, and growing and shipping the real stuff is highly industrialized.

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Ninety-nine percent of the world's vanilla extract is fake imitation vanilla that's not a product of the plant itself. Instead, it's flavored primarily with synthetic vanillin (a lab-produced version of the same chemical compound that occurs naturally in real vanilla). Typically labeled as vanilla essence, this artificial vanilla is usually derived from, uh, less-than-organic material (like petroleum).

In 1859, the U.S. almost went to war with Canada because of a pig. Just a few years after the Oregon Treaty was signed to end a border dispute between America and Britain (which still ruled over the area that came to be known as Canada), things got a little heated on San Juan Island where citizens from both countries were located. Historic UK explains that "a pig belonging to the British accidentally wandered onto the land of Lyman Cutlar, an American farmer. When Cutlar noticed the pig eating some of his potatoes he was incensed, and in a fit of rage shot and killed the pig."
Despite efforts to resolve the situation between the two men, things spread into the rest of the community and got to the point where the governor of British Columbia sent three warships to the area. The two sides continued to increase their military force over the following month until British Navy Admiral Robert L. Baynes arrived and ended things by stating that he would not "involve two great nations in a war over a squabble about a pig."

One of Ray Liotta's biggest roles was Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. Another of his big roles was starring in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Vice City's soundtrack featured the song "Stepping Out" by British singer Joe Jackson.

Theres a 1 in 10,000 chance you can have situs inversus, a genetic mutation that causes your internal organs in the chest and abdomen to be placed in reverse. For example, your spleen and stomach will be on the right hand side rather than on the left. There are different variations of situs inversus with some that can lead to more severe birth defects. However, the majority of affected individuals will be asymptomatic. Some will remain unaware until an X-ray or other medical imaging is done and shows the inverted sites of situs inversus.

The Chicago Bulls is the only NBA team to have never changed their logo.

You only need 10 pounds of pressure to rip off a human ear.

Newborn sea otter pups are so buoyant they can't immediately dive for food. Pups begin to dive and forage at about 2 months.

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We should definitely have another topic like this

Anyone heard of flushable wipes? Well, they aren't actually flushable at all.

Toilet paper is okay to flush because it breaks down when exposed to water; however """flushable""" wipes and most facial tissues are made with synthetic materials that don't dissolve so nicely. These materials (along with other items flushed down toilets such as tampons and food) can band together in sewer systems to create giant clogs dubbed 'fatburgs' which are hazardous and expensive to clean out.

(Pic of a fatburg.)
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Why are companies labeling unflushable wipes as flushable, you ask? Marketing. Said companies aren't required to prove that their wipes are flushable, and have thwarted attempts to regulate 'flushability' thus far.

Rabbits lack the vocal cords to cry like humans, but they can still scream. They only scream if theyre in extreme pain or think theyre about to die though, so screaming bunnies are never a good thing. One time I saw a YouTube video of a guy holding a baby rabbit that was screaming and he was laughing about how cute it was, and I thought the same thing until I learned that that meant that he was probably scared shitless

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Yo, what the fuck?

evilpresident posted...

Yo, what the fuck?

They're only there so that, if there was ever an active shooter at a sports event, they protect the crowd by downing the shooter. And in that crowded environment, you need that officer to be a trained sniper.

On a lighter note... This is a thing that exists.
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A mini boat!

Skepticism about practical reason includes skepticism about the scope of reason as a motive, and the bearing of reason on motives